It's been awhile since I posted anything, but I've finally started working in earnest on my second build, another DC Les Paul type with a few differences from my first. The first had figured back and sides with binding and purfling, while this one is more traditional with a mahogany (sapele) back and a deeper carved maple top. So I actually glued the top on this thing last summer and well, it's been awhile and I guess I forget that I had talked my friend who I'm building this for into letting me put a small chamber in this thing to shave a little weight off of it as the Sapele is a little heavier than real mahogany, which by itself isn't a problem but combine that with his desire to have me do a belly cut on the body and my poor memory and you can see where I'm going...
So now I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I could continue sculpting this and go right through and possibly place a veneer over the hole, which will be much worse at that point. I could try and stabilize the defect further, (I dropped some super glue in there just to make sure it was a little stronger than it looked) and try to touch it up with paint/filler, but I know I won't be able to replicate the chatoyance of the wood itself. Or else I could...?
I was really kind of liking the rough carved look that it has going right now too, although now that I have this little artifact from my forstner bit poking through I may have to save that for another guitar. Anyways, if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears...